‘Big Brother’ Words To Be Added To Oxford English Dictionary?

The finale of Big Brother 16 airs Wednesday, September 24. It’s down to three: Derrick Levasseur (the undercover cop), Cody Calafiore (former underwear model) and Victoria Rafaeli (the 22-year-old photographer). Big Brother host Julie Chen says she loves this season’s group of houseguests because there wasn’t “the pettiness of last season or this group herd/power in numbers mentality from last season.”

What Big Brother 16 didn’t lack was “flirtmances” and “showmances” – two words so popular from the addictive show that they will undoubtedly get nominated for the next version of the Oxford English Dictionary. With long-running shows like Big Brother, it’s no wonder ‘binge-watch’ was added to this year’s online version of the OED. Big Brother housemates might have also helped to get ‘side-boob‘ in, too.